Amazon to develop new sci-fi series based on ‘Consider Phlebas’ by Iain M. Banks

Amazon has announced that they’ll be developing the novel Consider Phlebas into a new television series for Prime Video. This is the first book in Iain M. Banks’s sci-fi space opera Culture series. The series will be adapted by British screenwriter Dennis Kelly, known for his work on the UK series Utopia. The series is described as “a kinetic, action-packed adventure on a huge canvas, Consider Phlebas draws upon the extraordinary world and mythology Banks created in the Culture, in which a highly advanced and progressive society ends up at war with the Idirans, a deeply religious, warlike race intent on dominating the entire galaxy.”